Remove hours, minutes and seconds from Carbon date

Question

I'm currently receiving Carbon dates like: 2021-03-17 17:14:42.01811, and I would like to not consider hours, minutes and seconds, converting it to the start of the day.

This value is not meant to be formatted to a string because in the code it is used for comparison against other dates.

I managed to make a solution, but it doesn't seem to be the most valid one, I'm using now() function as an example.

\Carbon\Carbon::parse(\Carbon\Carbon::now()->format('Y-m-d'));

Is there a more correct way to do this operation?

Answer 1

You can use the hour, minute and second setters of Carbon.

$dt = Carbon::now();
$dt->hour = 0;
$dt->minute = 0;
$dt->second = 0;

See docs

Or the fluent setters:

$dt = Carbon::now()
    ->hour(0)
    ->minute(0)
    ->second(0);

Or use fluent setter setTime($hour, $minute, $second = 0, $microseconds = 0) which also sets the microsecond to zero:

$dt = Carbon::now()->setTime(0, 0)

See docs